bilaterals.org logo
bilaterals.org logo

Articles by language

English
Tagalog
Europe: The fear of arbitral tribunals
13-Jan-2015 Le Monde
The consultation on investor arbitration that the European Commission launched in Spring 2014 delivered an unambiguous verdict: today, public opinion does not want it.
EU report presented today: Consultation on investment protection in EU-US trade talks
13-Jan-2015 EU Commission
Today, the European Commission published its analysis of the almost 150,000 replies to its online consultation on investment protection and investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
AGI divided over EPAs
13-Jan-2015 Graphic Online
Members of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) are divided over whether the government should join other West African states to sign onto the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Unions intensifying attacks on new emerging free-trade pact
13-Jan-2015 Associated Press
Just over two decades after lobbying unsuccessfully against the North American Free Trade Agreement, US labor unions are again voicing strong reservations to a proposed major trade-liberalization deal.
2015 can be a ‘game-changer’ for BIMSTEC
13-Jan-2015 BD News 24
Bangladesh hopes that the much-expected BIMSTEC FTA (between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand) will be finalised this year.
Are states sovereign?
12-Jan-2015 El Periódico
A trade treaty known as the TTIP is being negotiated between the US and Europe. From what I have been able to find out about this treaty, it will, among other things, limit the capacity of states to draft environmental, health or labour norms which adversely impact big corporations
India, US agree to restart talks on bilateral investment treaty
12-Jan-2015 Times of India
India and the US have reaffirmed commitment to the long-pending Bilateral Investment Treaty with PM Modi conveying to secretary of state John Kerry that New Delhi was prepared to hold early talks for the same.
NAFTA scrutiny of oilsands tailings ponds opposed by Canada
12-Jan-2015 CBC News
Canada is trying to stop NAFTA’s environmental watchdog from taking a closer look at the environmental effects of the huge tailings ponds produced by Alberta’s oilsands, and it appears Mexico and the US will go along with efforts to stop a formal investigation.
Food issues will not block EU-US trade deal: German minister
12-Jan-2015 Reuters
Germany’s farm minister Christian Schmidt says the United States is likely to back down on its opposition to the compulsory labeling of products containing or fed by GMOs.
European Parliament working document in view of preparing a draft report on the Parliament’s recommendations on TTIP
12-Jan-2015 EP
An assessment of the main results of the negotiations after approximately 1.5 years of discussions, expressing the EP’s views on the main issues of a potential TTIP agreement.
Chile interested in free trade agreement with PH—Domingo
12-Jan-2015
A Chilean delegation is set to arrive in March and may initiate talks for a bilateral free trade agreement with the Philippines, Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo said over the weekend.
Prospects rise for Turkey’s inclusion in TTIP, boss club says
12-Jan-2015
Debt: Yesterday Latin America, today Europe
9-Jan-2015 Rebelión
Today’s crisis relates neither to trade nor the production of goods and services. It is the banks and the financial sector that are in crisis.
Regional agreements gaining steam
8-Jan-2015 Korea Herald
While bilateral free trade agreements, as a means to further the market-opening and rule-making agenda, have been globally picking up steam, there have also been parallel efforts to usher in a plethora of regional trade agreements and economic unions.
US free trade critics, supporters kick off battle for public opinion
8-Jan-2015 Reuters
Supporters and critics of free trade are readying for a bitter battle this year over major free trade deals and legislation to fast-track trade agreements through the US Congress.
Lowest common denominator: EU-US trade deal threatens to lower standards of protection from toxic pesticides
8-Jan-2015 CIEL
A new analysis exposes how the American and European pesticide industry is using ongoing EU-US trade negotiations to lower human health and environmental standards in order to increase trade in toxic pesticides.
Lifting of US beef ban ’not a TTIP trade off’, EU says
8-Jan-2015 EurActiv
The United States’ decision to lift its long-standing ban on EU beef imports is not a trade-off as part of the ongoing transatlantic free-trade talks, the European Commission has said.
International treaties that loom against the rights of the working class (I): TTIP
8-Jan-2015 Rebelión
The context of negotiations, the origins of the TTIP and its new model of labor relations.
China FTA
8-Jan-2015
If any further proof were required that too much emotion in our relationship with Beijing is harmful to our interests, the disclosures from the ongoing review of Pakistan’s Free Trade Agreement with China ought to be sufficient.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft provisions on state enterprises and enterprises granted special or exclusive rights or privileges (July 2014)
7-Jan-2015 European Commission
As published by the European Commission